The foodservice industry and the agriculture sector are intrinsically linked but all too often those working in each field do not understand the other. By bringing the entire supply chain together we look to promote understanding across the foodservice industry – from farmers to fork.
2. The NFU champions British farming and provides professional representation and services to its farmer and grower members
Kevin Pearce
Head of Food and Farming
Footprint Forum
21st September 2010
The NFU champions British farming and provides professional representation and services to its farmer and grower members
3. The NFU champions British farming and provides professional representation and services to its farmer and grower members
The Economic Value of Farming
• Using three quarters of the UK land area, agriculture and
horticulture contribute £7.1 billion to the GVA of The UK
economy.
• Farm incomes remained stable at £4.1 billion
• The rural economy turns over £300bn each year, and
employs 5.5 million people
• Agriculture alone employs 500,000 people, 1.7% of the
UK work force
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Extending the Nestlé SA sustainable agriculture
approach to the Nestlé UK Milk Supply
Tim Innocent
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What is Sustainable Agriculture For Nestlé?
It’s something we do around the world and we call it CSV
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Some of Our Key Initiatives
− We are very active in this area for our key commodities
− We look beyond the pure “buying” of the material to ensure that we
have long term sustainable production
− It’s all about working together
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In Particular we are Supporting
Dairy Farmers around the world
− Over 100 years experience in dairy
− World’s largest dairy company in terms
of sales value
− We buy 12 million tonnes of milk per
year from more than 30 countries
− 5 million tonnes purchased direct from
farmers
− Support farmers to improve
productivity and sustainability
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New Dairy programme: Sub-Saharan Africa
East African Dairy Development, Kenya/Uganda
− Building a new dairy industry.
− Partnership with the East Africa Dairy Association with support from
the Gates Foundation and Heifer International
− Support for 155,000 farming families
− Technical assistance on
- Feeding, breeding, milking
- Food safety management
- Production & quality assurance
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Milk districts & women empowerment, Pakistan
Women livestock workers project with UN Development
Programme, Pakistan
5,000 women trained on
− managing healthy livestock
− feed and hygiene of cattle
− breeding
− hygienic milk collection
− water source protection
− Sell their service to thousands
of women in their villages
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Moving to the UK
• Taking these principles we are developing a scheme with our Partner
First Milk
• First Milk is a Farmer owned co-operative producing over 1.6 billion
litres of milk each year – approximately 16% of all milk produced in
Great Britain
• I used to say “milk is an ingredient just like sugar”
• I guess I was wrong!!
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So What are we Doing?
− Working with First Milk and their (our) farmers we will develop the
− “Nestlé First Milk Academy”
− We will pilot this in Girvan
• This factory takes 40% of the milk in this area:
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By working together we will deliver joint benefits
− A sustainable milk price competitive in the area
− A development programme for Farmers to ensure sharing of information
− Focus on water usage and best practices
− Working together to deliver the UK Milk Roadmap
− Using our resources to assist the Farmers
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Summary
By working collaboratively with our Partner (First Milk)
we are able to:
“ensure we have a sustainable milk supply”!
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